netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: assign the sock correctly to an outgoing SYNACK packet

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Message-ID: <1365445303.3887.33.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:21:43 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	mvadkert@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: assign the sock correctly to an outgoing SYNACK
 packet

On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 14:12 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:

> 
> It seems a bit fragile to me, perhaps even hacky, but in some ways I guess it 
> isn't anymore fragile than relying on skb->sk - as this problem demonstrates.  
> My other concern is that adding this hook *correctly* is likely to touch a lot 
> of files and may be a bit much so late in the 3.9 cycle, Dave, what say you?

I don't get it, 90ba9b1986b5ac4b2d18 was in 3.6, why do you care of
3.9 ?

I am preparing a fix right now. Not a revert, thank you.




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